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To: Pigboy who wrote (4135)	10/25/2001 3:09:32 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Good to see you come out of your bomb shelter, PB.<g> Will QLGC get any of the EMC/DELL FC HBA biz anytime soon? I think QLGC will get a piece of the business. Dell probably wants to have multiple sources for their networked storage business considering the way that just-in-time supply lines are easily disrupted today. Here's a snapshot of the appliance server and blades market that highlight the port density potential of both server and storage. computerworld.com

To: Pigboy who wrote (4135)	10/31/2001 3:15:11 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

RE: Applications, Storage and Replication. ....Most application people are designing applications without storage as a consideration, and most customers are buying applications without considering storage, and that's a recipe for failure. We're deploying applications without concern for where the storage lands," he said. "More customers need to be thinking of building applications with a storage layer in the middle." Kumar urged the industry to stop thinking in terms of operating environments and operating systems, and to demand that developers and vendors deliver applications that intelligently manage storage resources while running on multiple platforms. "[The time] is absolutely coming where application transparency will come and run on any given platform and storage will be available anywhere," he said. "The OS of the future will be secondary to applications and storage," Kumar said. infoworld.com EMC ControlCenter Replication Manager obliterates the old assumption that the more replicas you make, the harder they are to manage. It discovers, catalogs, integrates, and automates between disk replication, host applications, and external applications such as tape backup. It makes replication simple and more powerful, automatically..... emc.com .....The phone rings at 3:00AM. It’s one of your third-shift IS staff. You’re told that a database critical to running your business has been corrupted. Until it’s fixed, employees and customers will have no access to the information necessary to transact business resulting in lost revenue. Twenty minutes later, the database is repaired and you’re back in bed resting peacefully. Sound impossible? Not with Replication Manager. You call your DBA, who logs in from home to identify the problem. Using the Replication Manager catalog, the DBA has easy access to the last scheduled copy of the production database. (Replication Manager enables the scheduling of disk-based backups of selected filesystems and databases as often as your business demands.) The DBA then uses the Replication Manager auto-mount facility to mount the required copy of the database to a test machine and brings up the database immediately. Out of harm's way,the DBA can probe the database and validate the problem to create a fix. The Replication Manager GUI is then used to automate the recovery of the repaired information back onto the production system. At no time does the DBA need to have the storage administrator create a replication copy or require a systems administrator to mount the copy to or from the test machine. The DBA can complete this procedure without knowledge of the operating system, file system, or replication software’s command line interface and scripting language. Replication Manager allows the DBA to be self-reliant. It provides a level of application, operating system, file system, and replication software transparency. Contrast this scenario with that of a traditional tape-based backup/restore procedure where databases are instantly backed up using replications, and then serially transferred to tape using a tape format. A tape management system is not tracking logical information that is still replicated on disk and recovery must be from tape, increasing the recovery time and interrupting business in the process. In addition, tape-based backup is in a proprietary format and the media is extremely slow to mount and dismount. The database is also subject to mishandling and delays,potentially extending exposure to loss of business and customer satisfaction. No other replication technology discovers, mounts, associates, navigates, automates, catalogs or schedules,your entire information replication process from a simple to use interface. Only EMC ControlCenter Replication Manager reduces resources needed to manage complex replication tasks. Replication Manager relies upon disk-based replicas (mirror copies) as the foundation of the recovery operation. Replicas can now be used for granular backup and restore of table spaces and filesystems or for repurposing the information for other business-enhancing uses like data mining, production testing, and reporting.